Linden Lab® Introduces dio™: a New Shared Creative Space

Now in Beta, New Site Will Make It Easy to Explore, Create, Share,

- and Make Money - Interactive Places for Anything You Like

January 29, 2013 01:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Linden
Lab, the makers of shared creative spaces including Second
Life®, PatternsTM,
and CreatorverseTM,
today announced the open beta for dio,
a new site that allows users to create, share, and explore interactive
places. Though still in its early stages of development, dio is now open
to users who request invites at dio.com.

In dio, you create places by adding text, photos, videos, and
interactive objects into interconnected ‘rooms’ that give spatial
context to the content you share. You can keep your places private,
share them with friends and family, or allow everyone to explore and
enjoy them. Live and persistent chat allows you to socialize with other
users as you discover and explore dio places together and see what those
who came before you had to say. In the future, dio users will be able to
monetize the dio places they create, enabling them to profit from their
own creativity.

“dio is a new shared creative space on the web,” said Rod Humble, CEO of
Linden Lab. “Based around the concept of linked spaces, dio makes it
easy and fun to create or visit experiences of all kinds. dio is still
in development, and we have deliberately kept the tools as broad as
possible, but so far our testers have created a vast range of spaces,
from wedding keepsakes, to house tours, to games, to rich media-linked
chat rooms about sports and ancient history. I'm really looking forward
to seeing what people will create now that dio is more widely available.
One of the things that's made Second Life successful is that users are
able to monetize their own creativity by selling their creations. Second
Life’s economy was extremely robust with over $500 million worth of
user-to-user transactions last year. With dio, we want to similarly
empower creators by sharing ad revenue with them and ultimately allowing
them to sell their creations, and our hope is that this will encourage
the kind of incredible dedication and creativity we've seen with Second
Life."

You can request an invite to the dio beta today at dio.com.
The site will be updated with new features, tools, and concepts every
two weeks. A video introduction to dio and screenshots for press are
available at: http://lindenlab.com/products/dio

About Linden Lab

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, Linden
Lab makes shared creative spaces that inspire and empower users to
explore and share their creativity with others.

In 2003, the company released Second
Life, the pioneering virtual world filled by the unique creations of
its users, who can build anything they can imagine, socialize with
others from around the world, and share or sell their creations in a
thriving real-money marketplace.

Linden Lab has now expanded its portfolio to include new digital
entertainment products, including Patterns,
a new 3D universe for users to shape; Creatorverse,
a tablet and mobile game that allows users to set their creativity in
motion; and dio,
a new site that allows users to create, share, and explore unique
interactive places online.

For more about Linden Lab, its products, and career opportunities please
visit LindenLab.com.